COURSE SELECT BIBILIOGRAPHY

 

Political and Legal Background

 

Islam and Islamic Law in Southeast Asia Generally

 

Bowen, John R., Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia. Cambridge University Press (2003).

 

Cammack, Mark. “Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia: Forging an Indonesian Madhhab” in The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress. Harvard University Press (2001).

 

Cammack, Mark, “Islam, Nationalism, and the State in Suharto’s Indonesia,” 17 Wisconsin International Law Journal 27 (1999).

 

Cammack, Mark, “Islamic Law in Indonesia's New Order,” 38 Int'l & Comp. L. Q. 53 (1989) reprinted in Hukum Islam di Asia Tenggara 27 (Sudirman Tebba, ed.)(1993).

 

Esposito, John L. (ed.), Islam in Asia:  Religion, Politics & Society. Oxford University Press (1987).

 

Gertz, Clifford, Islam Observed:  Religious Development in Indonesia and Morocco (1968).

 

Heffner, Robert W., Civil Islam:  Moslems and Democratization in Indonesia. Princeton University Press (2000).

 

Hooker, M.B. Indonesian Islam: Social Change through Contemporary Fatawa. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press (2003).

 

Hooker, M.B., Legal Pluralism:  An Introduction to Colonial and Neo-Colonial Laws. Oxford University Press (1975).

 

Hooker, M.B. and Tim Lindsey, “Public Faces of Syari’ah in Contemporary Indonesia: Towards a National Mazhab?” 10(1) Studia Islamica 23 (2003).

 

Ibrahim, Ahmad. “The administration of Muslim law in Southeast Asia,” 46 Islamic Culture 245 & 46 Islamic Culture 337 (1972).

 

Kamali, Mohammad Hashim, Islamic Law in Malaysia:  Issues and Developments. Ilmiah Publishers (2000).

 

Lev, Daniel S., Islamic Courts in Indonesia:  A Study in the Political Bases of Legal Institutions. University of California Press (1972).

 

Lindsey, Tim, “Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia,” 37 RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs) 121 (2003).

 

Lindsey, Tim and M.B. Hooker, ”Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia,” in Indonesian Drama: Cohesion of Fragmentation in a Globalising World (Geoff Hainsworth, ed.) ISEAS: Singapore (2004).

 

Linnan, David, "Indonesian Law Reform, or Once More Unto the Breach:  A Brief Institutional History Reprised," in Indonesia: Law and Society. (Tim Lindsey ed.) The Federation Press (second edition, forthcoming late 2005).

 

Sharia and Politics in Modern Indonesia. (Salim, Arskal & Azyumardi Azra, eds.)  ISEAS: Singapore (2003).

 

Islamic Political Thought & Islam and the Modern State

 

Eichelman, Dale F. & James Piscatori, Muslim Politics. Princeton University Press (1996).

 

Enayat, Hamid, Modern Islamic Political Thought. University of Texas Press (1982).

 

Esposito, John L., Islam and Politics. Syracuse University Press (3d ed. 1991).

 

Islam in an Era of Nation States Heffner, (Robert W. & Patricia Horvatich, eds.) University of Hawaii Press (1997).

 

Lewis, Bernard, The Political Language of Islam. University of Chicago Press (1988).

 

Mayer, Ann Elizabeth, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics. Westview Press (3d ed. 1999).

 

Piscatori, James P., Islam in a World of Nation States. Cambridge University Press (1986).

 

Schacht, Joseph, "Problems of Modern Islamic Legislation," 12 Studia Islamica 99 (1960).

 

Watt, W. Montgomery, Islamic Political Thought. Edinburgh University Press (1968).

 

Contemporary Trends:  Fundamentalism and Progressive Alternatives

 

Anderson, J.N.D., "Modern Trends in Islam:  Legal Reform and Modernization in the Middle East," 20 Int'l & Comp. L.Q. 1 (1971).

 

An-Na'im,  Abdullahi Ahmed. Toward an Islamic Reformation:  Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law (1990).

 

el Fadl, Kladed Abou. Speaking in God's Name:  Islamic Law, Authority and Women (2001).

 

Maududi, S. Abdul Ala. Islamic Law and Constitution. Kazi Publications (1955).

 

Mitchell, Richard. The Society of Muslim Brothers. Oxford University Press (1969).

 

Othman, Norani. Shari'a Law and the Modern State:  A Malaysian Symposium.  SIS Forum (Malaysia) Berhad (1994).

 

Rahman, Fazlur. "Islamic Modernism:  Its Scope, Method and Alternatives," 1 International Journal of Middle East Studies 317 (1970).

 

Sivan, Emmanuel. Radical Islam:  Medieval Theology and Modern Politics. Yale University Press (1985).

 

Tibi, Bassam, The Challenge of Fundamentalism:  Political Islam and the New World Disorder. University of California Press (1998).

 

Women and Islam in Context

 

Islam and Women’s Rights in Southeast Asia

 

Baried, Baroroh, Muslim women and social change in Indonesia: the work of Aisyiyah in Speaking of faith: cross-cultural perspectives on women 190 (Diana Eck and Devaki Jain, eds.) 1986.

 

bin Haji Othman, Haji Faisal. Women, Islam, and Nation Building. Kuala Lumpur: Berita Pub., 1993.

 

Blackburn, Susan, “Women and the Nation,” Inside Indonesia (April-June 2001). http://www.insideindonesia.org/edit66/susan1.htm

 

Bowen, John R., “Qur'an, justice, gender: internal debates in Indonesian Islamic jurisprudence,” 38 History of Religions 52 (1998).

 

Cammack, Mark. “The Articulation of Women’s Legal Rights in Southeast Asia” in Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (forthcoming, Suad Joseph, general ed.) Brill: The Netherlands.

 

Cammack, Mark, “Islamic Inheritance Law in Indonesia: The Influence of Hazairin’s Theory of Bilateral Inheritance,” 4 Australian Journal of Asian Law 295 (2002).

 

Cammack, Mark. “Indonesia’s 1989 Religious Judicature Act: Islamization of Indonesia or Indonesianization of Islam?” 63 Indonesia 143 (1997) Reprinted in Sharia and Politics in Indonesia (Arskal Salim & Azyumardi Azra, eds.) ISEAS: Singapore, 2003.

 

Cammack, Mark, “Regional Variation in Acceptance of Indonesia's Family Planning Program,” 20 Population Research and Policy Review 565 (2002)(with T. Heaton).

 

Cammack, Mark, “Why is the Divorce Rate Declining in Indonesia?” 63 Journal of Marriage and the Family 480 (May 2001) (with T. Heaton and L. Young).

 

Cammack, Mark, “Inching Towards Equality: Recent Developments in Indonesian Inheritance Law,” 5 Indonesian Law & Administrative Review 19 (1999), reprinted in 22 Dossier 1 (2000).

 

Cammack, Mark, “An Empirical Assessment of Divorce Law Reform in Indonesia,” IV Studia Islamica 93 (1998) (with T. Heaton and L. Young).

 

Cammack, Mark, “Legislating Social Change in an Islamic Society: Indonesia’s Marriage Law, 44 American Journal of Comparative Law 45 (1996) (with T. Heaton and L. Young).

 

Douglas, Carol Ann, “Malaysian Sisters in Islam Oppose Fundamentalism,” 28(3) Off Our Backs 10 (1998).

 

Feillard, Andree and Lisa Marcoes, “Female circumcision in Indonesia: to ‘Islamize’ in ceremony or secrecy,” 56 Archipel 337 (1998).

 

Islam, reproductive health, and women's rights: report of proceedings on the regional workshop organized by SIS Forum (Malaysia) Berhad (Sisters in Islam), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : SIS Forum (Malaysia)(1998).

 

Istiadah, Clayton.  Muslim women in contemporary Indonesia: investigating paths to resist the patriarchal system. Vic.: The Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University (1995).

 

Jones, Gavin W., “Modernization and divorce: contrasting trends in Islamic Southeast Asia and the West,” 23(1) Population and Development Review 95 (1997).

 

June & Ronald Katz, "The New Indonesian Marriage Law:  A Mirror of Indonesia's Political, Cultural and Legal Systems," 24 American Journal of Comparative Law 653 (1975).

 

Ong, Aihwa, “State versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia.” IN Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. (Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz, eds.) University of California Press (1995).

 

Othman, Norani, "Grounding Human Rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture:  Sharia and the Citizenship Rights of Women in a Modern Islamic State," in The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Joanne R. Baur & Daniel A. Bell, eds.) Cambridge University Press (1999).

 

Rahman, Isa, Ab. Shuib, Rashidah Shukri Othman, “The practice of female circumcision among Muslim in Kelantan, Malaysia,” 7 Reproductive Health Matters 137 (1999).

 

Rinaldo, Rachel, “Defying expectations: the experience of Muslim countries suggests that having a female leader isn't always enough,” 26(17-18) In These Times 18 (2002).

 

Scher, Hagar, “True Koranic justice,” 7 Ms 15  (May/June 1997). 

 

Suwarni, Salyo, “Islamic influences on the lives of women in Indonesia,” 2(2) Mizan: Indonesian Forum for Islamic and Social Studies 15 (1985).

 

van Doorn-Harder, Nelly, “A Muslim Feminist Stirs Indonesia’s Waters,” Christian Science Monitor (May 17, 2001). Available at http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/women/rights/rights051701.html

 

Woodcroft-Lee, C.P. “Separate but equal : Indonesian muslim perceptions of the roles of women.” in Women’s work and Women's roles : economics and everyday life in Indonesia. Australian National University Press: Malaysia and Singapore (1983).

 

General Works on Islam and Women’s Rights

 

Abou El Fadl, Khaled. Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women. Oxford: Oneworld Press (2001).

 

Afkhami, Mahnaz and Haleh Vaziri. Claiming our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies. Sisterhood Is Global Institute (1995).

 

Afkhami, Mahnaz and Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Haleh Vaziri. Safe and Secure: Eliminating Violence against Women and Girls in Muslim Societies. Sisterhood is Global Institute (1998).

 

Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. Yale University Press (1993).

 

Ahmed, Leila, “Arab Culture and Writing Women's Bodies,” 9 Feminist Issues 41 (1989).

 

al-Hibri, Azizah Islam, “Law and Custom: Redefining Muslim Women’s Rights,” 12 American University Journal of International Law and Policy 1 (1997).

 

Ali, Shaheen Sardar. Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal Before Allah, Unequal Before Man. The Hague, Kluwer Law International (2000).

 

al-Marzouqi, Ibrahim.  Human Rights and Islamic Law. Morgan Pub. (2000).

 

Amin, Qasim. The Liberation of Women and The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press (2000).

 

An-Na'im, Abdullai, "The Rights of Women and International Law in the Muslim Context," 9  Whittier Law Review 491 (1987).

 

Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint. (Suha Sabbagh, ed.) Olive Branch Press (1997).

 

Ashrafi, Talat Ara. Muslim Women in Changing Perspective. Commonwealth Publishers: New Delhi (1992).

 

Bielefeldt, Heiner, “Muslim Voices in the Human Rights Debate.” 17 Human Rights Quarterly 587 (1995).

 

Buergenthal, Thomas. Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women. Palgrave Macmillan (1999).

 

Callaway, Barbara, and Lucy Creevey. The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion and Politics in West Africa. Boulder: Lynn Reinner (1984).

 

Cipriani, Linda, “Gender and Persecution: Protecting Women Under International Refugee Law,” 7 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 11 (1993).

 

Coomaraswamy, Radhhika. The impact of tradition, culture & religion on women in South Asia.  Colombo, Sri Lanka : International Centre for Ethnic Studies (1988).

 

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella. Getting God’s Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. Columbia University Press (2000).

 

Dwyer, Kevin. Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East. University of California Press: Berkeley (1991).

 

El Saadawi, Nawal. The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. Boston: Beacon Press (1980).

 

El Guindi, Fadwa. Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance. Berg Publishers (1999).

 

Engineer, Asgharali. The Rights of Women in Islam. New Delhi: New Dawn Press (2004).

 

Esfandiari, Haleh. Reconstructed Lives: Women & Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Johns Hopkins University Press (1997).

 

Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World. (Mahnaz Afkami, ed.) Syracuse University Press (1995).

 

Fischer, Michael and Mehdi Abedi. Debating Muslims. Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition. University of Wisconsin, Madison (1990).

 

Gender, politics, and Islam. (Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith A. Howard, eds.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2002).

 

Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, (Deniz Kandiyoti. ed.) Syracuse University Press (1996).

 

Gole, Nilufer. The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling. University of Michigan Press (1996).

 

Hussain, Shaukat. Human Rights in Islam.  New Delhi, India: Kitab Bhavan (1990).

 

Islamic Law Reform and Human Rights: Challenges and Rejoinders. Edited, and with an introduction, by Tore Lindholm and Kari Vogt. Oslo: Nordic Human Rights Publications (1993).

 

Jawad, Haifaa. The Rights of Women in Islam: An Authentic Approach. MacMillan Press (1998).

 

Khan, Muhammad Zafrulla (Sir). Islam and Human Rights. Tilford, U.K.: Islam International (4th ed. 1989).

 

Khushalani, Yougindra. Dignity and Honor of Women as a Basic and Fundamental Human Right. Kluwer Boston Inc. (1982).

 

Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. [Volume I of the two volume series Women and History]. Oxford University Press (1986).

 

Little, David, John Kelsay, and Abdulaziz A. Sachedina. Human Rights and the Conflict of Cultures: Western and Islamic Perspectives on Religious Liberty. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press (1988).

 

Mayer, Ann E., The Evolution of the Concept of Human Rights” in Islam and Human Rights: Advancing a U.S.-Muslim Dialogue, (Shireen Hunter, ed. with Huma Malik) Center for Strategic and International Studies (2005).

 

Mayer, Ann E., “Shifting Grounds for Challenging the Authority of International Human Rights Law: Religion as a Malleable and Politicized Pretext for Governmental Noncompliance with Human Rights,” in Human Rights with Modesty: The Problem of Universalism (Andras Sajo, ed.) Martinus Nijhoff (2004).

 

Mayer, Ann E., “Universal Versus Islamic Human Rights: A Clash of Cultures or a Clash with a Construct?” 15 Michigan Journal of International Law 307 (1994).

 

Mayer, Ann E, “Islamic Reservations to Human Rights Conventions. A Critical Assessment”, 15 RIMO. Recht van de Islam: Human Rights and Islam 26 (1998).

 

Mayer, Ann E, “Reform of Personal Status Laws in North Africa: A Problem of Islamic Law or Mediterranean Law?”, 49 Middle East Journal 432 (1995).

 

Mayer, Ann E, “Islamic Rights or Human Rights: An Iranian Dilemma,” 29 Iranian Studies 269 (1996).

 

Mernissi, Fatima. Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society. Indiana University Press (revised ed. 1985).

 

Mernissi, Fatima. The Veil and the Male Elite: a feminist interpretation of women’s rights in Islam. Addison-Wesley (1991).

 

Mernissi, Fatima. Women's Rebellion and Islamic memory. London: Zed Books (1996).

 

Messaoudi, Khalida, Unbowed: An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism. University of Pennsylvania Press (1998).

 

Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak. (Elizabeth Fernea and Basima Bezirgan, eds.) University of Texas Press (1977).

 

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran. Princeton (1999).

 

Moghissi, Haideh. Feminism and Islamic fundamentalism : the limits of postmodern analysis. London; New York : Zed Books (1999).

 

Moors, Annelies. Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences 1920-1990. Cambridge University Press (1995).

 

Mughni, Haya. Women in Kuwait: the Politics of Gender. London: Saqi Books (2001).

 

Mumtaz, Khawar and Farida Shaheed. Women of Pakistan: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? London: Zed Books (1987).

 

Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform. (Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl, eds.) Syracuse University Press (1997).

 

Nashat, Guity, and Judith Tucker, Women in the Middle East and North Africa. Indiana University Press (1998).

 

Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing. (Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke, eds.) Indiana University Press (1990).

 

Quoc-Benjamin, Le Huy and Nguyen Tang, “Women, Democracy and Islam: A Noble Laureate’s Views on Human Rights,” 41(4) UN Chronicle 38 (2004).

 

Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. (Lila Abu-Lughod, ed.) Princeton University Press (1998).

 

Sayeh, Leila P, Morse, Adriaen M. Jr, “Islam and the Treatment of Women: An Incomplete Understanding of Gradualism,” 30 Texas International Law Journal 311 (1995).

 

Shaaban, Bouthaina. Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk about their Lives. Indiana University Press (1991).

 

Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East. (Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker, eds.) Westview Press (1999).

 

Structures of Patriarchy: State, Community and Household in Modernizing Asia. (Bina Agarwal, ed.) London: Zed Books (1988).

 

Women and International Human Rights Law: Volume 1. (Kelly D. Askin and Dorean Koenig, eds.) New York: Transnational Publishers Inc. (1999).

 

Women and Islamization: Contemporary Dimensions of Discourse on Gender Relations. (Karin Ask and Marit Tjomsland, eds.) Oxford: Berg Press (1998).

 

Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity. (Herbert Bodman and Tohidi Nayereh, eds.) Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers (1998).

 

Women of Iran: The Conflict with Fundamentalist Islam. (Farah Azari, ed.) London: Ithaca Press (1983).

 

Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives (Julie Peters and Andrea Wolper, eds.) New York: Routledge (1995).

 

Reports of International Organizations

 

Amnesty International. [http://www.amnesty.org]

----, Women in Afghanistan: A Human Rights Catastrophe. AI, London, 1995.

----, Afghanistan: Human Rights Violations in the Name of Religion. AI, London, 1996.

----, Women in Indonesia and East Timor - Standing Against Repression. AI, London, 1995.

----, Women in Pakistan: Disadvantaged and their rights denied. AI London, 1995.

----, Pakistan: Violence Against Women in the Name of Honor. AI London. 1999.

----, Women in the Middle East. AI, London, 1995.

 

Human Rights Watch [http://www.hrw.org]

----, Campaigning against Fear: Women’s Participation in Afghanistan’s 2005 Elections (2005).

----, Sexual Violence and its Consequences among Displaced Persons in Darfur and Chad (2005).

----, Between Hope and Fear: Intimidation and Attacks against Women in Public Life in Afghanistan (2004).

----, “Political Shari’a”?: Human Rights and Islamic Law in Northern Nigeria (2004).

----, Honoring the Killers: Justice Denied For Honor Crimes In Jordan (2004).

 

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women [http://www.un.org ]

 

Dabbous-Senseni, Dima, The Arab World And The Challenge Of Introducing Gender-Sensitive Communication Policies. (2002). Available at  http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/media2002/reports/OP5Dabbous.PDF

 

Farouk, Sharmeen A., Violence against women : A statistical overview, challenges and gaps in data collection and methodology and approaches for overcoming them. (2005).  Available at  http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/vaw‑stat‑2005/docs/expert‑papers/Farouk.pdf

 

Web Pages

 

Women Living Under Muslim Laws [http://www.wluml.org/english/index.shtml ]

 

Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights [http://www.karamah.org/home.htm ]

 

Women in Islam: Muslim Women [http://www.uga.edu/islam/Islamwomen.html ]

 

Liberal Islam Network [http://islamlib.com/]

 

Films

 

Against My Will, directed by Ayfer Bergun. First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY (2002).

 

Crimes of Honor, directed by Shelley Saywell.  First Run/ Icasus Films, Brooklyn, NY (1998).

 

Shirin Ebadi - A Simple Lawyer, directed by Bani Khoshnoudi. First Run/ Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY (2004).

 

Osama, directed by Siddiq Barmak.  MGM, Hollywood, CA. (2004).

 

Submission, directed by Theo van Gogh.  (2004).

 

 

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